[GNC] [GNC-dev] Bugs.gnucash.org Up and Running

[John Ralls]

> On Jul 6, 2018, at 8:30 AM, Derek Atkins <derek at ihtfp.com> wrote:
> 
> John,
> 
> On Fri, July 6, 2018 10:43 am, John Ralls wrote:
>> 
>> 
>>> On Jul 6, 2018, at 6:49 AM, Derek Atkins <warlord at mit.edu> wrote:
>>> 
>>> Richard,
>>> 
>>> Richard Ullger <rullger at gmail.com> writes:
>>> 
>>>> John,
>>>> 
>>>> Some links are pointing back to gnome bugzilla.
>>>> 
>>>> See comment 3 on https://bugs.gnucash.org/show_bug.cgi?id=796665
>>> 
>>> The reason for this is that the commentor (YOU!) explicity put in the
>>> URL instead of using the appropriate shorthand "Bug #796665".
>>> 
>>> At this point I know of no way to fix this.
>>> 
>> 
>> That said, references to non-gnucash bugs using the shorthand will
>> probably get a bad URL because we didn’t copy all of Gnome’s database.
>> There’s no reasonable way to fix that either.
>> 
>> That’s also unlikely to be the only kind of stale URLs in the bug
>> database. The internet has changed a lot over the last 17 years (the
>> oldest bug, 58566, was opened 2001-08-05).
> 
> I suspect I could write a script using the Perl interface that would
> search for any references like this, and possibly hand-modify the SQL
> tables that need adjusting.   If nothing else I can look for any comment
> references to bugzilla.gnome.org <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/> or a bug# that's not in the database.
> 
> Actually, I can probably do that in the json!  So there are 361 bugs that
> have a reference to "show_bug.cgi".  Only 287 of those reference
> bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi>.
> 
> Searching for "Bug # xxx" which wasn't imported is going to be harder.
> 
> I'm not sure what to change the bugzilla.gnome.org <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/> references to...

I assume that you mean you don’t know what to change bugzilla.gnome.org <http://bugzilla.gnome.org/> references to when they refer to a bug that we didn’t import to bugs.gnucash.org <http://bugs.gnucash.org/>. I suppose that there are two alternatives: We can import those bugs too or just leave the links as-is. I don’t think that we want to import them. (The third alternative, find their gitlab instances, will likely apply only to a very few of them: Only open bugs being actively worked on or identified as still a serious problem were migrated.)

It’s worth noting that Gnome missed their date for shutting down new bugs, too. https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?classification=__all <https://bugzilla.gnome.org/enter_bug.cgi?classification=__all> still lists *lots* of projects.

Regards,
John Ralls